Nice gobbler, heck of a beard.
Bret - watch out on there being any runoff locations for rain water where you turkeys can get to it. We had a tin shed roof
over a protected area in their pen, and came home one rainy day and checked the turkeys. All laying flat and gurgling
flopping under the line of water dribbles running off of the tin roof. We saw one, still up looking up, mouth open letting the water
from a corrugation run down his open mouth. Apparently they all thought (with an IQ of 0.1) that was a good idea.
We picked them up, water poured out of their mouths, we patted their chests and got more water out and got most
of them breathing OK, but they had been laying on the ground under the water and were soaked and chilled. Took them
into the kitchen, ran the oven on medium, and sat them on the open door and let them warm up as we dried them. It
was a long time ago, but we saved most, seems like two of 10 or so died. These were a reddish brown domestic breed,
forget the name. Even dumber than our white domestics which seemed hardier. Domestic turkeys even out-stupid
domestic chickens and that is saying something. I worked on a chicken farm as a teen and we raised chickens and
turkeys at home. Long ago in the 60s. Good luck, keep them from drowning themselves with a water dribble.
Bill